Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To go to see or spend time with (someone); call on socially.
  • intransitive verb To go to see in order to aid or console.
  • intransitive verb To stay with (someone) as a guest.
  • intransitive verb To go to see in an official or professional capacity.
  • intransitive verb To go to see or spend time at (a place) with a certain intent.
  • intransitive verb To access (a website).
  • intransitive verb To occur to or occupy the mind of.
  • intransitive verb To consider or discuss.
  • intransitive verb To afflict or assail.
  • intransitive verb To inflict or impose.
  • intransitive verb Archaic To inflict punishment on or for; avenge.
  • intransitive verb To make a visit.
  • intransitive verb Informal To converse or chat.
  • noun The act or an instance of visiting a person or place.
  • noun A stay or sojourn as a guest.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of visiting or going to see a person, place, or thing; a temporary residence in a locality or with some one as a guest; a call on a person or at a place.
  • noun A formal or official call; a visitation.
  • To go or come to see (a person or thing) in the way of friendship, business, curiosity, ceremony, or duty; call upon; proceed to in order to view or look on.
  • To come or go to, in general; appear in or at; enter.
  • To go or come to see for the purpose of inspection, supervision, examination, correction of abuses, or the like; examine; inspect.
  • To afflict; overtake or come upon: said especially of diseases or calamities.
  • In Scriptural phraseology: To send a judgment from heaven upon, whether for the purpose of chastising or afflicting, or of comforting or consoling; judge.
  • To inflict punishment for (guilt) or upon (a person).
  • To practise going to see others; keep up friendly intercourse by going to the houses of friends; make calls; stay with (another) as a guest.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To make a visit or visits; to maintain visiting relations; to practice calling on others.
  • transitive verb To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon.
  • transitive verb To go or come to see for inspection, examination, correction of abuses, etc.; to examine, to inspect
  • transitive verb (Script.) To come to for the purpose of chastising, rewarding, comforting; to come upon with reward or retribution; to appear before or judge
  • noun The act of visiting, or going to see a person or thing; a brief stay of business, friendship, ceremony, curiosity, or the like, usually longer than a call
  • noun The act of going to view or inspect; an official or formal inspection; examination; visitation.
  • noun (Internat. Law) the right of visitation. See Visitation, 4.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A single act of visiting.
  • noun medicine, insurance A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb go to see a place, as for entertainment
  • noun the act of visiting in an official capacity (as for an inspection)
  • noun the act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time
  • verb come to see in an official or professional capacity
  • verb assail
  • verb pay a brief visit
  • verb stay with as a guest
  • noun the act of going to see some person in a professional capacity
  • verb go to certain places as for sightseeing
  • noun a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest)
  • verb talk socially without exchanging too much information
  • noun a meeting arranged by the visitor to see someone (such as a doctor or lawyer) for treatment or advice
  • verb impose something unpleasant

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English visiten, from Old French visiter, from Latin vīsitāre, frequentative of vīsere, to want to see, go to see, from vidēre, to see; see weid- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin vīsitō, frequentative of vīsō ("behold, survey"), from videō ("see").

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